Radical Idea to fix BCS

[Loftin]

I know that it's a dream and will never happen, but I was having fun today thinking up a new system for college football. Here it is:

There are exactly 119 teams in D-IA college football. Make 8 conferences, one with 11 schools, 12 in all of the others. Divide by geography and have no distinction between major and mid-major conferences. Make a 16-team playoff were all 8 conference winners are guaranteed in and the other 8 spots are filled by ranking.

In this system, EVERY team has to play a major opponent and if you win your conference, you are definately worthy to be in a playoff. No one is left out, everybody has a chance to win the championship no matter how small their school is. There would be 8 conference games for each school, with 3 OOC games (so all rivalries can still be played). Every Conference would have a conference championship game to avoid the controversy of automatic bids going to tie-breakers.

Please let me know what y'all think about this idea.

[Loftin]

Here's an example of what the conferences could look like:

Pacific Conference:
1.Southern California
2.UCLA
3.California
4.Fresno State
5.Stanford
6.San Diego State
7.San Jose State
8.Hawaii
9.Oregon
10.Oregon State
11.Washington
12.Washington State

Rocky Mountain Conference:
1.Nevada
2.UNLV
3.Idaho
4.Boise State
5.Arizona
6.Arizona State
7.Colorado
8.Colorado State
9.Air Force
10.Utah
11.Utah State
12.BYU

Gulf Conference:
1.Florida
2.Florida State
3.Miami
4.Florida International
5.Florida Atlantic
6.South Florida
7.Central Florida
8.Georgia
9.Georgia Tech
10.Alabama-Birmingham
11.Auburn
12.Troy

Deep South Conference:
1.Ole Miss
2.Mississippi State
3.LSU
4.Tulane
5.Louisiana Tech
6.Louisiana-Lafayette
7.Louisiana-Monroe
8.Southern Mississippi
9.Alabama
10.Tennessee
11.Middle Tennessee
12.Vanderbilt

SWC:
1.Texas A&M
2.Texas
3.Texas Tech
4.Baylor
5.UTEP
6.SMU
7.North Texas
8.Rice
9.Houston
10.TCU
11.Oklahoma
12.Oklahoma State

Appalachian Conference:
1.South Carolina
2.Clemson
3.East Carolina
4.North Carolina
5.NC State
6.Duke
7.Virginia
8.Virginia Tech
9.Kentucky
10.Louisville
11.Wake Forest
12.Maryland

Heartland Conference:
1.Arkansas
2.Arkansas State
3.Wyoming
4.Nebraska
5.Kansas
6.Kansas State
7.Iowa
8.Iowa State
9.New Mexico
10.New Mexico State
11.Tulsa
12.Memphis

Great Lakes Conference:
1.Minnesota
2.Wisconsin
3.Michigan
4.Michigan State
5.Eastern Michigan
6.Western Michigan
7.Central Michigan
8.Illinois
9.Northwestern
10.Northern Illinois
11.Indiana

Mid West Conference:
1.Ohio
2.Ohio State
3.Missouri
4.Notre Dame
5.Toledo
6.Akron
7.Kent State
8.Bowling Green
9.Purdue
10.Miami (OH)
11.Ball State
12.Cincinatti

Norteastern Conference:
1.Boston College
2.Pitt
3.Rutgers
4.West Virginia
5.Penn State
6.Syracuse
7.Navy
8.Marshall
9.Conneticut
10.Army
11.Temple
12.Buffalo

[polish]

Damn i'd be for that

[CHHS_Aggie]

I would support that.

[12thman]

I like that idea a lot. I think we should go to it next year.

[CoolaidWade]

That is an awesome idea......

So you want the 1 and 2 place teams of each conference to go to the playoffs? I guess that is what you meant by "rankings"

[MarylandAG]

It sounds like a great idea to me. So half of the sixteen team playoffs is determined by who wins the conference, and the other half of the playoff is determined by ranking. What is the most objective way of ranking the teams for the 8 spots, that are determined by rank? BCS poll, coaches poll, or some new poll that would be devised? What do you guys think of this, for the 8 spots that hinge on ranking, how about no poll at all, but instead formation of a committee that looks a criteria such as strength of schedule, etc and they award or determine the 8 spots, so basically the second half of the playoff bracket would be determined in a similar fashion as the 64 team field during the NCAA baskeball tourny.

[Loftin]

By ranking I meant BCS, coaches, AP or some other poll. However, that selection committee would be a pretty good idea.

[CoolaidWade]

Even more radical then that.......


Instead of having each conference being permenant how about every year having the bottom four teams drop to the conference below them..... (Assigning each conference a number) Have the bottom 4 in conference 7 transfer to conference 8..... Have the bottom 4 in coference 8 transfer to conference 1 and so on.


That would be really cool. Or just to have polarity have the top 2 and bottom 2 of each conference to transfer. Then College Football would start to get crazy interesting.

[AggieWill]

Anything that makes sense won't be used by the NCAA

[Loftin]

What actually suprised me the most when I tried to separate the conferences geographically was that they were amazingly even. The SWC and Gulf conferences were definately the toughest, but EVERY conference had at least a couple of good programs and a few cupcakes. If I had had made it completely geographic, the SWC would have the New Mexico schools and the Heartland would have had the Oklahoma schools, but I wanted OU in our conference.

[AggieWill]

Few things

Auburn/Alabama HAVE to be together...
Georgia/Florida HAVE to be together

[Loftin]

Auburn/Alabama HAVE to be together

I originally did, but the Gulf Conference would have had Florida, Florida State, Miami, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Auburn and Alabama. To keep things a little more even I switched Alabama with UAB. I figured that since the Iron Bowl was so important they would schedule it as an OOC game.


Georgia/Florida HAVE to be together

I have both of them in the Gulf Conference.

[Vlyrock]

The only problem I foresee is since there's 10/11 possible conference games, only playing 3 would cause some teams to not play each year (kind of like what happens now). But imagine you play Miami, Florida and Florida State and miss FIU, FAU and Central Florida. However, your opponent misses Miami, Florida and Florida State but plays FIU, FAU and Central Florida. Not really fair...and rewarding a spot based on strength of schedule doesn't help the team that lost 3 to those tough teams....

See what I mean? Only fair way is to have every team play every team. Have 1 OOC or 2 OOC games and play the other 11 teams in your conference (since it's a 12 game schedule)